23 February 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7335)

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Editor's Choice

Psychic wages

BMJ 2002;324:0.10 (Published 23 February 2002)

News

Yeast genome shares 50 genes with human diseases

BMJ 2002;324:441.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Higher folic acid levels could reduce risk of Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2002;324:441.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Smoking increases among teenagers in eastern Europe

BMJ 2002;324:442.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Monitoring body criticises hospital for mixed sex wards

BMJ 2002;324:442.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:442.3 (Published 23 February 2002)

DNA needs to be protected by law

BMJ 2002;324:443.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Proposed genetic database on Tongans opposed

BMJ 2002;324:443.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Doctors' chambers—pipe dream or blueprint for the future?

BMJ 2002;324:445 (Published 23 February 2002)

Survey shows serious shortage of medical academics in the UK

BMJ 2002;324:446.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Editorials

Recombinant human parathyroid hormone

BMJ 2002;324:435 (Published 23 February 2002)

Guidelines for managing community acquired pneumonia in adults

BMJ 2002;324:436 (Published 23 February 2002)

Academic medicine: a faltering engine

BMJ 2002;324:437 (Published 23 February 2002)

Yellow fever vaccine

BMJ 2002;324:439 (Published 23 February 2002)

Doctors working in prisons

BMJ 2002;324:440 (Published 23 February 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Postoperative starvation after gastrointestinal surgery

BMJ 2002;324:481 (Published 23 February 2002)

Cardiotocography v Doppler auscultation

BMJ 2002;324:482 (Published 23 February 2002)

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in general practice

BMJ 2002;324:485 (Published 23 February 2002)

Caesarean section rate in England and Wales

BMJ 2002;324:486.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Self management is the future

BMJ 2002;324:486.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Management of chronic disease

BMJ 2002;324:487 (Published 23 February 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Struan Sutherland

BMJ 2002;324:488.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Anthony Charles William Mosbergen da Roza

BMJ 2002;324:488.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Archibald Walter Forbes Erskine

BMJ 2002;324:488.3 (Published 23 February 2002)

Kenneth Boyd Fraser

BMJ 2002;324:488.4 (Published 23 February 2002)

James Munro Christie Gill

BMJ 2002;324:488.5 (Published 23 February 2002)

Obituaries - continued

Alexander (“Sandy”) James Gray

BMJ 2002;324:488.6 (Published 23 February 2002)

John Webb Hallewell

BMJ 2002;324:488.7 (Published 23 February 2002)

Elizabeth Joan Harbott (née Bowen)

BMJ 2002;324:488.8 (Published 23 February 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:494 (Published 23 February 2002)

Fillers

The world's trouble

BMJ 2002;324:458.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

The sanitary condition of the house

BMJ 2002;324:458.3 (Published 23 February 2002)

Comparison of estimates and calculations of risk of coronary heart disease by doctors and nurses using different calculation tools in general practice: cross sectional study

BMJ 2002;324:459 (Published 23 February 2002)

“A little white tablet, doctor”

BMJ 2002;324:473 (Published 23 February 2002)

Self pity

BMJ 2002;324:477.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

This Week In the BMJ

As many as one in 475 pregnancies may be denied

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 23 February 2002)

Deprived children have more fractures than affluent ones

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 23 February 2002)

Eating fish in pregnancy prevents preterm birth

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Can animal experiments inform human health care?

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 23 February 2002)

Hepatitis C infection does not increase all cause mortality

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Subjective estimates are acceptable for calculating coronary risk

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 23 February 2002)

Acute neuropathies are diagnostic emergencies

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 23 February 2002)

Ultrasonography plus plain x ray films are best for investigating men with urinary tract infection

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 23 February 2002)

NHS plan underestimates numbers of new doctors needed

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 23 February 2002)

Clinical Reviews

Peripheral neuropathy

BMJ 2002;324:466 (Published 23 February 2002)

Introduction. II—Basic terminology

BMJ 2002;324:470 (Published 23 February 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

European Union plans electronic health card to guarantee treatment

BMJ 2002;324:444.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Medical journals can reduce global health inequity, conference told

BMJ 2002;324:444.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

UK patients group hits back at anti-vivisectionists

BMJ 2002;324:444.3 (Published 23 February 2002)

22 year old damaged by aspirin loses compensation claim

BMJ 2002;324:444.4 (Published 23 February 2002)

Harvard School of Public Health refuses tobacco funds

BMJ 2002;324:444.5 (Published 23 February 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Mandela presents his concerns about AIDS policy to ANC committee

BMJ 2002;324:446.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Urgent reform of NHS governance needed

BMJ 2002;324:446.3 (Published 23 February 2002)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web] - continued

United States starts to consider paying organ donors

BMJ 2002;324:446.4 (Published 23 February 2002)

Spain to ban drinking in the street

BMJ 2002;324:446.5 (Published 23 February 2002)

People who sleep for seven hours a night live longest

BMJ 2002;324:446.6 (Published 23 February 2002)

Forum calls for action on child health to tackle heart disease

BMJ 2002;324:446.7 (Published 23 February 2002)

Papers

Low consumption of seafood in early pregnancy as a risk factor for preterm delivery: prospective cohort study

BMJ 2002;324:447 (Published 23 February 2002)

Clinical course of hepatitis C virus during the first decade of infection: cohort study

BMJ 2002;324:450 (Published 23 February 2002)

Ultrasonography and abdominal radiography versus intravenous urography in investigation of urinary tract infection in men: prospective incident cohort study

BMJ 2002;324:454 (Published 23 February 2002)

Association between childhood fractures and poverty: population based study

BMJ 2002;324:457 (Published 23 February 2002)

Denial of pregnancy: population based study

BMJ 2002;324:458.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Primary care

Experiences and career intentions of general practice registrars in Thames deaneries: postal survey

BMJ 2002;324:464 (Published 23 February 2002)

Education and debate

Does animal experimentation inform human healthcare? Observations from a systematic review of international animal experiments on fluid resuscitation

BMJ 2002;324:474 (Published 23 February 2002)

Evaluation of diagnostic procedures

BMJ 2002;324:477.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Books

The Encyclopedia of Arthropod-Transmitted Infections

BMJ 2002;324:490.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Hormone Replacement Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease: The Current Status of Research and Practice

BMJ 2002;324:490.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Film

A Beautiful Mind

BMJ 2002;324:491.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

RADIO

28 Minutes to Save the NHS

BMJ 2002;324:491.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

PRESS

How parents decide on MMR

BMJ 2002;324:492.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Venomous creatures

BMJ 2002;324:492.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Personal View

A day in the field that changed my methodology

BMJ 2002;324:493.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

Soundings

The inaugural

BMJ 2002;324:493.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Corrections

Photofinish

BMJ 2002;324:465.1 (Published 23 February 2002)

In grandfather's room

BMJ 2002;324:465.2 (Published 23 February 2002)

Christiaan Barnard: his first transplants and their impact on concepts of death

BMJ 2002;324:465.3 (Published 23 February 2002)

Income, health, and the National Lottery

BMJ 2002;324:465.4 (Published 23 February 2002)